Islamic finance

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Islamic finance is a system of banking and financial practices that complies with Islamic law, emphasizing risk-sharing, asset-backed transactions, and the prohibition of interest (riba) and excessive uncertainty (gharar).

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Predicate Object
instanceOf banking system
financial system
alternativeTo conventional finance
appliesTo Muslim-majority countries
non-Muslim-majority countries
basedOn Islamic law
Sharia
surface form: Shariah
corePrinciple asset-backed financing
avoidance of speculation
avoidance of unethical industries
link to real economic activity
profit and loss sharing
prohibition of excessive uncertainty
prohibition of gharar
prohibition of interest
prohibition of maysir
prohibition of riba
risk sharing
emergedInModernForm 20th century
expandedSignificantly early 21st century
late 20th century
governedBy Islamic scholars
Shariah supervisory boards
hasSector Islamic asset management
Islamic banking
Islamic capital markets
takaful
objective avoid exploitation in financial contracts
promote equitable distribution of wealth
promote social justice in finance
prohibits financing of adult entertainment
financing of alcohol industry
financing of conventional weapons of mass destruction
financing of pork-related products
fixed or guaranteed interest payments
gambling-related transactions
pure monetary speculation
relatedConcept Islamic finance self-linksurface differs
surface form: Islamic economics

ethical finance
socially responsible investing
requires real economic purpose
underlying tangible asset
usesContractType ijarah
istisna
kafalah
mudarabah
murabaha
musharakah
salam
wakalah
usesInstrument sukuk

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Sharia appliedIn Islamic finance
Islamic finance relatedConcept Islamic finance self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Islamic economics